03x02 - Episode 2

Episode transcripts for the TV show "A Discovery of Witches". Aired: April 2019 to present.*
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Based on best-selling novel, A Discovery of Witches is a contemporary love story that begins against the backdrop of Oxford academic life, in a world where small numbers of witches, vampires and daemons live and work, unseen amongst humans, hiding in plain sight.
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03x02 - Episode 2

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[DOMENICO] Whoever's doing this

is infected with blood rage.

Why would he be following
Matthew and Diana?

The k*ller stole their portraits.

Miniatures painted in the th century,

nothing else was taken.

Now you're mated,

blood rage is harder to control.

I want the infected
vampire found, k*lled,

and the outbreak contained.

Vampires can no longer sire.

Witches' powers are waning.

Daemons seem to be slipping
into actual mental illness.

- We need a cure for blood rage.
- I will give you my blood,

but in a way, Matthew
will not pick up your scent.

He cannot know about our pact.

[HUBBARD] I will watch over the child...

Madam de Clermont, I'm Benjamin Fuchs.

Matthew, I think I met him.

And he certainly didn't
say he was your son.

He's not my son!

When did they get back?

I told you never to come back here.

I'll leave... when I
get what I came for.

He is not here.

I haven't seen him for months.

I'm sure he'll turn up.

And when he does...

You'll let me know, won't you?

Why can't you just leave him
alone, Benjamin?

[DOOR CLOSES]

[MIRIAM] I'm sorry, Matthew,
but it's far more complex

than we first imagined.

Well, we've identified nearly
a hundred vampire genes.

We still have over four hundred to go.

This is a massive task.

You're a scientist,
you know how this works.

You can't cut corners.

And Miriam is as brilliant
as she is annoying.

- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

But there's still only two of us.

- So then the cure is...
- [CHRIS] Years away.

Well then, we need to work faster

because Diana is pregnant.

And if the babies are infected,
we'll need a cure.

Look, I understand,
but it will take time!

[MIRIAM] And we're going
to need more researchers.

[DIANA] If anyone can find
answers, it's Miriam and Chris.

[MATTHEW] Yes, but we've got weeks.

Not years.

[ENGINE STARTS]

What is it?

Vampires.

[HUBBARD] Matthew...

Diana Bishop.

Father Hubbard.

Why are you here?

[HUBBARD] London is my domain...

until God calls us to him.

But I've come looking for you.

Both of you.

You left something in my keeping.

Jack.

I've brought him back.

Where he belongs.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYS]

[HUBBARD] The plague
came back to London.

I started shivering one morning.

By dawn I was dying.

Father Hubbard made me a vampire.

I had to save his life.

Poor boy didn't know
what he was choosing...

He was a young man
by this time, Matthew.

- Not the little boy you left behind!
- [MATTHEW] I left him

in the care of Henry Percy,
well provided for.

[HUBBARD] Do you really think a warm bed

and food in his belly could
mend his broken heart?

He went to the docks every day

looking for ships from Europe

hoping that you would be aboard,

or that someone would have
some news of you.

In the end I had to tell him...

you weren't coming back.

I am so sorry we left you.

He told me that you time walked

back to this century.

You knew that?

You knew that in the fifteen nineties?

I gave Hubbard a drop of my blood.

So that he would protect Jack.

And he did.

I did.

He was your responsibility, Matthew.

You made him mine.

Get out.

[DIANA] Why are you so angry?

Because your blood could have

revealed everything about you to Hubbard

and therefore, in turn,

revealed all of my secrets, too!

[DIANA] One drop was all he got.

I used my magic.

He got some of my secrets,

he won't have learned any of yours.

What did you expect him to do?

Hubbard couldn't let
Jack die. Could you?

I chose to die...

as a human rather than live
without my wife or son!

Do you wish you had?

No!

Because I would never have met you

and now I have a chance
to be a father again.

That's exactly what Jack has.

Another chance to
have a family. With us.

I remember finding this book in Bohemia.

An old grimoire,

full of spells that worked.

Once.

When witches had real power.

I found something else.

A letter from Edward Kelley

about the missing pages
from the Book of Life.

'Missing pages'?

Three pages were torn out.

Kelley sent them
to three different recipients.

Imagine if we could find those pages

and reunite them with the Book.

'We'? You want me to help you?

I gave you your place
on the Congregation!

[SATU] I owe you nothing.

You can't control me anymore.

I am a weaver.

Beware the witch with
the blood of the lion

and of the wolf...

for she will destroy
the children of the night'.

And you thought Diana was that witch.

Satu, you must help me.

Your time is over.

[KNOX] Gerbert has no loyalty.

As soon as you cease
to be useful to him,

he will turn on you.

You and Gerbert are the same.

Men obsessed with power.

[GRUNTS]

[GASPING]

[MARCUS] What's this?

It's the research Diana
and I have been doing.

Like, the last time she saw
the Book of Life

was in Blackfriars
and she sent it to John Dee

so it could find its way
to Elias Ashmole,

to the Bodleian.

Now we know it's still there, somewhere,

but the er, pages Edward Kelley
tore out are still lost.

And where's the
best place to hide a page?

On your desk by the looks of it?

In a book.

And Dee took some of
his library to Europe.

And the rest, it stayed here,
in England.

Over his lifetime,
they were sold off, pilfered.

They ended up all over the world.

So, I've been tracking down
the current locations

of all the magical and alchemical books

so Diana can search through them.

I think Matthew's
feeling guilty about Jack.

He's a sixth century patriarch.

Vampire families are held together

with obedience and discipline.

Yeah, well, Diana's
a twenty first century witch.

Something's going to have to change.

I have to go into
the university with Diana.

Gallowglass and Fernando
will stay with you.

Drawing helps me think.

Or stop thinking.

Why didn't you want me
to become a vampire?

When I was dying,
my life just felt unfinished.

Maybe that's how everyone feels.

But I knew that I had
a chance to find you again.

I'm so glad you're here, Jack.

We have an awful lot to catch up on.

Or we start again.

Clean slate.

Mm.

[MIRIAM] We're not just understaffed.

We don't have enough DNA
from your bloodline.

We only have three samples.

Matthew, Marcus and Ysabeau.

And if you want us to establish
a pedigree that will

tell us how blood rage is inherited,

we're gonna need more.

Marcus should go to New Orleans.

What's in New Orleans?

Marcus's children.

Vampire children?

I'll talk to Marcus.

[CHRIS] Good, that'll give me a chance

to share what data we have with my team.

I'm sorry, your team
of teenage warmbloods,

analyzing creature DNA?

- I don't think so.
- Try 'students.'

They need to know
and we need their help.

It's too dangerous.

Matthew...

[CHRIS] This is a huge task.

You want a cure for blood rage tomorrow,

but you only want
two people working on it?

If our genetic information
gets into the wrong hands,

it could get us all k*lled,
if not worse.

- [CHRIS] I understand...
- No, you don't.

You don't.

My father was captured by
the Germans during the w*r

and experimented on

and tortured all in
the name of medical science.

I can assure you, Chris,

you have no idea what
your kind is capable of!

I'm a Black man from Alabama.

Believe me, I understand
what humans are capable of!

Now my team here are
not 'the wrong hands'.

You're not going to be able to
keep the existence of creatures

away from humans for much longer.

You're one autopsy,

one genetic counseling session,

one home DNA-testing kit
away from being outed.

Now, who do you want
to have that information?

Working alone will always limit us.

We've already trusted Chris.

I think it's time to trust others.

[JACK] I was worried
they wouldn't recognize me,

but Diana knew right away.

- She's exactly like I remember.
- Aye. She is that.

Baldwin.

[BALDWIN] Gallowglass.

I need to speak with Matthew and Diana.

I think they're inside the house.

Has something happened?

- Who the hell is this?
- Jack Blackfriars.

Get out.

Now.

One of Hubbard's strays.

It's family only in this house.

[SNARLS]

- [GRUNTS]
- Jack!

[GRUNTING]

[SNARLS]

[GALLOWGLASS] Baldwin, no...

Darling, I understand,

but conversing with students
about creature genetics

goes against everything
that has secured my survival.

It goes against
the very reason that Philippe

established the Covenant
nine hundred years ago.

Well, Philippe also said

that the only reliable thing
in the world is change.

Mm-hmm.

Lychee?

- [CLAMORING]
- What is it?

[CLAMORING CONTINUES]

- [MAN] Stay down!
- [DIANA] Matthew?

[GALLOWGLASS] Jack att*cked Baldwin!

A vampire you are concealing?

Jack, Jack, Jack! Calm down, calm down.

Look at me. Look at me!

Tell him I belong to you!

I am the head of this family!

If you can't control
your houseguest, I will.

- [SQUELCHING]
- No!

[DIANA] Baldwin!

[GRUNTS]

Take your hands off...

my son.

[SNARLS]

[GRUNTS]

Let Jack go!

[GRUNTS]

Let him go! Let him go!

[PANTS]

Baldwin, Jack belongs to us.

I will deal with this.
Do you understand?

Diana, please.

Diana... release him from the spell.

[GRUNTS]

No, stay away!

[BALDWIN] I drank his blood.
I saw his memories.

He is the blood raged k*ller. [PANTS]

This is his work!

The slaughter of warmbloods!

[GASPS]

Jack...

Was this you?

[JACK WHISPERS] I don't know.

[DIANA] Is it true?

And you were protecting him.

You know what has to be done.

Monsieur...

I promise you...

I had no knowledge of Jack's blood rage.

Brother, this could ruin our family.

k*ll him.

God help me.

Do it!

[SNARLS]

[DIANA] Please, Matthew. No!

[GROWLS]

[DIANA] Jack?!

You aren't going to k*ll him.

Are you?

[HUBBARD] Look, Jack
begged me not to tell you.

And I hoped you wouldn't need to know.

If Jack is kept safe and happy,

then the blood rage recedes,
as you know, Matthew.

[MATTHEW] How did he get it?

Was it from you?

Benjamin Fuchs is my sire.

Benjamin...

[HUBBARD] In , I lost my
whole parish to the plague.

I buried them all.

And then I dug my own grave
and lay down in it.

But I was brought back to life.

Benjamin resurrected me.

He hoped that I would have blood rage.

He also hoped that
I would stand with him

against the de Clermonts
and their allies.

Why did you bring Jack to us now?

[HUBBARD] I hadn't heard
from Benjamin for years.

But then he came...

looking for Jack.

Jack was young when I sired him.

He was malleable.

Benjamin saw this,

he saw that Jack could be
what I wouldn't.

And use his blood rage as a w*apon

against the de Clermonts.

So he forced Jack to k*ll.

To... hunt for pleasure,
to t*rture his victims.

He told Jack that he needed to prove...

that he was really one of
Matthew de Clermont's blood.

And you couldn't stop him?

[HUBBARD] Oh, I tried, Diana.

But I have many lost souls

in my flock to take care of and...

I was Jack's sire but
I wasn't his father.

He promised me.

He said "I will not k*ll"

so many times, but...

it was like an addiction.

It is an addiction...
if it isn't controlled.

And Benjamin would have been
far too strong for him.

[HUBBARD] You're my
last hope for him, Matthew.

You can't k*ll Jack.

He's our son.

We need to find him and help him.

Jack is in more suffering
than you can possibly imagine.

I can end that suffering,
give him peace.

And he's already put us all at risk.

Okay, this is ridiculous.

Aren't the lab finding
a cure for blood rage?

I mean, isn't that why
we were all dragged here?

And what if there is no cure?

[DIANA] We bring him home.

We keep him safe until we find one.

And when the Congregation
find out that Jack is guilty

of the blood rage murders,
they will k*ll him.

Or Baldwin will k*ll him,
or Benjamin will find him

and none of them will
care about how much

pain they inflict upon our boy!

To save Jack,

I would have to disobey
Baldwin, the head of my family.

It's insanity.

[WHISPERING] This is a w*r
that we cannot win.

A father protects his children.

Where are you going?

To find Jack.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

You know everyone else
is in the library.

[MARCUS] Matthew is out hunting Jack.

'Hunting'? But Jack is family.

When a vampire shows
signs of blood rage,

they're k*lled.

By order of the Congregation.

And because I'm a carrier,

Matthew was charged with k*lling

every vampire I sired in New Orleans.

And every vampire they sired.

Hardly any of my family survived.

Matthew spared the carriers

but the cull was the only way to

stop exposing vampires to humans.


[JACK GASPING]

[MATTHEW] Where are you, Jack?

[GASPING CONTINUES]

[JACK] I know you're there.

You've come to k*ll me.

I understand.

[JACK GASPS]

I stole these.

I had to k*ll a man to get them,

but it was all that I could find of you.

I didn't know that becoming a vampire

would make me sick.

I was already dying. I thought...

what difference would it make?

And when I realized
I couldn't control myself,

I... I didn't want to live anymore.

But Philippe told me to wait for you.

Philippe. My father?

[JACK] He said that you would be the one

to teach me to ignore what
my blood is telling me to do.

He can't have known
how evil I would become.

The boy I knew in Blackfriars
had no evil in him whatsoever.

I'm not the boy that you knew.

I won't fight you.

I've done so many things
in my life I regret.

So many things that weren't
even considered wrong

hundreds of years ago.

Things... change.

Philippe was right about that.

[GASPS]

[SIGHS]

[BOTH SIGH]

[JACK] Matthew says that you taught him

to control his blood rage.

Matthew realized his nature
didn't have to be his destiny.

All I taught him was
to pause and reflect.

You see, learning control
isn't easy or quick.

Thank you.

[GALLOWGLASS] You've also got Diana.

She'd do anything for you.

[LIQUID POURING]

Don't let Matthew know.

About what?

[FERNANDO] Your feelings for Diana.

You can't hide them from me.

Philippe charged me to look after her.

I've spent my whole life
keeping her safe.

Well, Diana is with Matthew now.

One day, perhaps soon, Gallowglass,

you will have to walk away from her.

I know.

But not today.

[BELLS TOLL]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Domenico.

Thank you for coming.

It's the de Clermont pedigree.

Their family tree from
the Congregation archives.

Can you see anything wrong with it?

- No.
- [GERBERT] There's something missing.

They've hidden what they
don't want us to know.

Can I trust you, Domenico?

[DOMENICO] I did as you asked.

I told the Congregation
about the blood raged vampire.

You used it to att*ck the de Clermonts.

I've had noth...

Even the de Clermont secrets
come out eventually.

Benjamin.

I thought you were dead.

The de Clermont's day is nearly over.

[GERBERT] It's about time
Matthew de Clermont learns

who he's dealing with.

[EXHALES]

[GROANS]

Thank you... for bringing him home.

You're welcome.

So, I'll be going to New Orleans.

Hm. I know.

Forming a scion will be hard.

But I think it's the only way
to change things.

Hm.

Take responsibility for everyone

who's inherited my blood rage.

I'll take Marcus and Jack with me.

- Jack?
- Yes.

I'm not leaving a blood raged vampire

with my mate and our babies.

[WHISPERING] I don't
want to be without you.

Nor do I.

Before I go, there's
something I need to do...

with your help.

Anyone want to tell me what that is?

It looks like human chromosome two.

It is human chromosome two.

But this is what we're going
to be focusing on.

Chromosome , known as CC.

What does CC stand for?

Before I answer that,
I'd like to remind you

that you've all signed
a nondisclosure agreement.

This is a highly sensitive,

highly confidential research project

because lives are at stake here.

Lives have already been lost.

'CC' stands for...

Creature Chromosome.

This is my DNA.

And it's Creature Chromosome because...

- I'm a vampire.
- [RESEARCHERS CHUCKLE]

And before you ask,

I can go outside during the day.

I'm Catholic and I have a crucifix,

and when I sleep,

which is not very often,

I prefer a bed to a coffin.

These myths are
all you really know of us.

We have had to hide from humans.

We've been vilified;

we've been hunted

because people fear
what they don't understand.

I hope that by trusting you,

you can start to accept us.

Thank you.

Oh, erm...

Miriam, whom you already know and trust,

I hope, is also...

a vampire.

And my wife Diana is a witch.

Although witches are,

trust me, a whole other story.

So there we are.

Any questions?

[PHOEBE] How many?

- What?
- Children, in New Orleans.

How many are left?

To convince for your scion?

Five.

Out of twenty.

And then there's their children.

[PHOEBE] Your grandchildren?

[MARCUS] None of them will be happy

to see me with Matthew.

Hm.

But they're still your family.

[MARCUS] This is something I have to do.

I will be fine, I promise. Yeah?

Yeah. I know.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[ENGINE STARTS]

[MATTHEW] I need your support, Marcus.

And I know this won't be easy for you.

Find a cure for blood rage.

Fight to repeal the Covenant

Defy the Congregation
which upholds injustice

and form a scion so we can live freely

without Baldwin
breathing down our necks.

And then?

[MARCUS] I'll forgive you
for the murders,

for the secrets.

And I will be the first
to offer my allegiance.

[PHONE RINGS]

Yes?

[BENJAMIN] Hello, Matthew.

Remember me?

Benjamin...

It's been a long time.

[MATTHEW] What do you want?

Check your email.

[BENJAMIN] Trust me, Jack.

One day, we'll look
back on this together.

Is it on? Are you ready?

- [JACK] I don't want to.
- [BENJAMIN] I want to show Matthew

what you can do,

that you're worthy of his respect;

his love.

Give me...

[HEAVY BREATHING]

They look scared.

[BENJAMIN] Come on, Jack.

And you wonder why Matthew left you.

Perhaps he knew you didn't
have the spirit in you.

Not enough to be his son.

- [GRUNTS]
- [BENJAMIN] That's it, Jack.

That's it.

[GRUNTS]

[SNARLING]

[WOMAN SCREAMS]

♪ Gentle impulsion ♪

♪ Shakes me makes me lighter ♪

[SNARLING CONTINUES]

♪ Teardrop on the fire ♪

♪ Feathers on my breath ♪

[BENJAMIN] You see, Matthew...

He truly is a child of your blood.

What is it that you want?

[BENJAMIN] The whole family together.

You, me, Jack...

Diana.

♪ Night, night after day ♪

♪ Black flowers blossom ♪

♪ Feathers on my breath ♪

♪ Feathers on my breath ♪

We're all just wondering when
the bodies will start turning up.

You brought the devil
back to town, Marcus,

what did you expect?

- [GRUNTS]
- Jack!

[MARCUS] I'm here as Ransome's sire.

He can't change what's already happened.

But he can own it, Marcus.

Every time things were tough for her,

she read her way out of it.

I don't understand how you know that.

If you have the page,
you'd be wise to hand it over.

I know how you value your invisibility.

♪ Water is my eye ♪

♪ Most faithful mirror ♪

♪ Feathers on my breath ♪

♪ Teardrop on the fire ♪

♪ Of a confession ♪

♪ Feathers on my breath ♪
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